Ivar steps forward, dorn-dergar flailing, and lashes out at the ghost. Then does so again.
James shot bounces off of the far wall before turning what was thought a miss into a hit. Ivar steps up and lands two blows though it is clear the damage is reduced.
The ghost groans out a warning before a spectral miasma emeniates from its body filling the area and damaging each of the party memebers. Further it makes it harder to see or attack the ghost. "It appears you cadavers will be subjects for experiments."
As it speaks it flies straight up threw the ceiling leaving your hallway filled with the spectral miasma. Most of you are experienced enough to know that you will continue to take damage in the hallway and that this effect will dissipate in one minute.
You can avoid this by going back to the door you came in or forward to either of the other doors or the stairs.
Bold may act
[u] Round 2 [/u]
Vedia, Xander, James, Ivar, Augar
Furkas Xoud
[u] Chapter: 3 [/u]
Choking Tower[u] Stat Tracker [/u]
Global Condition: None |James HP: 57/63 - AC: 18/14/14 Status:
Vedia HP: 48/51 - AC: 14 (17 Iron Skin)/14/11 Status:
Ivar HP: 89/93 - AC: 25/12/21 Status: AC+1 vs Robits | DR/3 | P
Xander HP: 50/56 - AC: 15/12/13 Status:
Augar HP: 65/71 - AC: 23/11/22 Status:
-------------------Furkas Xoud HP: 101/132 AC: 28/16/26
"Forward rather than retreat I think, yes?" Vedia is ready to move.
James coughs out a bit of the goo, and then nods as he checks the first door.
"I concur let's move ahead and get out of this miasma or whatever it is." Xandar says stoping his performance and getting behind James as he looks over the door for traps.
The party quickly rushes forward James scans the door and does not notice a trap and they rush out of the miazma.
This simple kitchen shows signs of long neglect. A pair of stoves stand cold on the north side of the room between tall shelves stacked with jars and dishes. Along the west wall, a wide sink brims with pale mold. The center of the room contains a butcher’s table, above which hangs an assortment of knives, cleavers, and pans. An odd-shaped tub protrudes from the southwestern corner of the room.
The miazma is slowly dissipating but in this room you are out of danger from it.
While they are waiting for the miasma to dissipating, Xandar will take a look around the kitchen. Look for signs of recent use and/or hidden objects. "Might aswell have a look around while we wait for the magic to run it's course out there."
"Careful of the mold. Remeber what happened last time we dealt with it. Blech for days." Vedia is recalling the brown old in the cave in Torch that was so long ago.
Ivar wraps his dorn-dergar and shakes his head. "I'll face any foe I can actually hit, but ghosts? They're just mist. There's nothing there. Frustrating."
Xandar you manage to spot what James did not. The stove is a trap and would belch out fire like a dragon if touched. The mold itself appears harmless.
As the cloud disperses the group moves to the northern room and finds the door untrapped and unlocked.
Dust-covered shelves crammed with all manner of books and scrolls line the walls of this enormous curving library. A large desk, its top cluttered with scrolls and papers, sits at the western end of the room. A metal door leads to the south, while north of it a second door stands slightly ajar, revealing what appears to be a reading nook.
Looking around you find one book of some value, it is Furkas early spellbook that is no longer in use by the ghost. It contains all cantrips as well as:
2nd—detect thoughts (DC 16), fog cloud, mirror image,
see invisibility, web (DC 16)
1st—identify, mage armor, magic missile, shield, technomancyTG
[u] Map is updated, where too next? [/u]
"Well I certainly won't be using that for cooking, unless some of you like black and burnt food." Xandar says stepping away from the stove to avoid accidentially setting it off. "Perhaps it will be a good idea to get back to explorering, the miasma seems to have lost it's effect at last" he says stepping back out into the hallway. "Should we head upstairs and have a look around?"
Vedia snatches up the spellbook with glee. "More spells. Wonderful." She quickly tucks it away for review, and scribing later. "We should see if we can find his other books."
She nods to Xander. "Upstairs sounds good."
"Very well."
Checking the stairs, James cautiously heads up, pistol in hand.
The trip up the stairs is uneventful and fortunately there are not traps for once. At the top of the stairs there is another set of stairs and two doors set at forty five degree angles. Finding no traps again James leds them into the next area which is a very cramped hallway with lots of doors. IN this this hallway James does find one trap.
With some work he disables a trap which would have sprayed steam on your entire group.
The doors around this hallway are slightly ajar and you can tell that they were once crew quarters. You also notice there is come movement. Some sort of creatures are advancing nosily on the party. Grasping arms emerge from a tangled cluster of debris and mechanical parts. A metal skull hovers above the clanging mess.
These are Gearghosts. An undead spirit that is good at setting traps which fits right in in this place.
They are self healing.
They could probably reset the trap James disabled very quickly.
Not incorporeal!
Bold may act
[u] Round 1 [/u]
Vedia, Xander, James, Ivar, Augar
Green Red Blue
[u] Chapter: 3 [/u]
Choking Tower[u] Stat Tracker [/u]
Global Condition: None |James HP: 57/63 - AC: 18/14/14 Status:
Vedia HP: 48/51 - AC: 14 (17 Iron Skin)/14/11 Status:
Ivar HP: 89/93 - AC: 25/12/21 Status: AC+1 vs Robits | DR/3 | P
Xander HP: 50/56 - AC: 15/12/13 Status:
Augar HP: 65/71 - AC: 23/11/22 Status:
-------------------Green
Red
Blue
"These are some strange undeads, looks like the remains of a construct but are just spirits with a corporeal body unlike any normal ghosts." Xandar says having identified the machine spirits. "At least we can fight these normally, let me sing a tune for you and get the show going." he says beginning to hum a song to allow his magic to inspire his comrades them all.
James spends a swift action studying the green one, and then takes a few shots at it with his pistol.
"Gearghosts!" Ivar says. "I've heard of these!" then he readies his dorn-dergar moves forward to attack.
Vedia moves into the room behind Augar, and lets a Ray of Frost fly past the Cleric.
Augar advances and crashes his hammer into the red gearshost.
James takes a moment to study the green target and pulls the trigger twice, both shots connecting easily.
Ivar also attacks and connects with a heavy strike on the green gearshost.
Shooting over Augar's shoulder Vedia connects with an icy projectile.
The two damaged gearghosts fight back ineffectively unable to get past the armor of Augar and Ivar.
The third ghost moves to the floor behind the green and starts to reset the trap that James had deactivated. It is a little complicated but you only have seconds to stop it!
Bold may act
[u] Round 2 [/u]
Vedia, Xander, James, Ivar, Augar
Green / Red / Blue
[u] Chapter: 3 [/u]
Choking Tower[u] Stat Tracker [/u]
Global Condition: None |James HP: 57/63 - AC: 18/14/14 Status:
Vedia HP: 48/51 - AC: 14 (17 Iron Skin)/14/11 Status:
Ivar HP: 89/93 - AC: 25/12/21 Status: AC+1 vs Robits | DR/3 | P
Xander HP: 50/56 - AC: 15/12/13 Status:
Augar HP: 65/71 - AC: 23/11/22 Status:
-------------------Green HP: 22/52 AC: 18/15/17
Red HP: 37/52 AC: 18/15/17
Blue HP: 52/52 AC: 18/15/17
As the gearghost closes in on him, Ivar allows his dorn-dergar to fall to the ground, and punches at the nearer ghost, then follows with a headbutt.
As his master attacks, Ivar's companion adds in a blow as well.
*
*
Xandar can't really see any way he can help in these narrow hallways so he just continues his performance while figuring out a way to help the fight more directly.
James continues to fire at green.
Vedia sends another Ray of Frost at the red gear creature.
[ooc] "Does this building we're in count as "ground"?"
I would say no for two reasons. Ground implies the actual ground not something sitting on the ground. Your also on the 2nd floor now so that makes it even less likely to count as ground. [/oos]
Both of Augars attacks miss but Ivar catches his target with a vicious headbut. James first shot is enough to dispatch the green ghost. His second hits blue as it resets the trap. Vedia also manages to clip blue with a chunk of ice.
The red gearghost connects with one attack on Augar but, lets face it, they are not effective combatants. The blue ghost finishes resetting the trap and looks poised to trigger it at his next opportunity.
Bold may act
[u] Round 3 [/u]
Vedia, Xander, James, Ivar, Augar
Green / Red / Blue
[u] Chapter: 3 [/u]
Choking Tower[u] Stat Tracker [/u]
Global Condition: None |James HP: 57/63 - AC: 18/14/14 Status:
Vedia HP: 48/51 - AC: 14 (17 Iron Skin)/14/11 Status:
Ivar HP: 89/93 - AC: 25/12/21 Status: AC+1 vs Robits | DR/3 | P
Xander HP: 50/56 - AC: 15/12/13 Status:
Augar HP: 62/71 - AC: 23/11/22 Status:
-------------------
Green HP: /52 AC: 18/15/17
Red HP: 37/52 AC: 18/15/17
Blue HP: 39/52 AC: 18/15/17
James steps back a bit from green, and then starts shooting at blue to distract him from his trap setting.
Xandar halts his performance to let the lingering effect continue to buff his comrades while he makes room for those who fight better than him.
Vedia sends another shard of ice at the gearhost.
Ivar steps forward and continues to batter on the nearby gearghost.
Ivar manages to bring down the blue gearghost before it can trigger the trap that it had reset but the trap is set and must be avoided for now.
Vedia, James and Augar mange to connect with strikes on the remaining, red, gearshost but it is not enough to fully bring it low.
The gearghost tries to slam Augar as it flies by but it cannot connect. It is however near the trap and will trigger it soon.
Bold may act
[u] Round 4 [/u]
Vedia, Xander, James, Ivar, Augar
Red
[u] Chapter: 3 [/u]
Choking Tower[u] Stat Tracker [/u]
Global Condition: None |James HP: 57/63 - AC: 18/14/14 Status:
Vedia HP: 48/51 - AC: 14 (17 Iron Skin)/14/11 Status:
Ivar HP: 89/93 - AC: 25/12/21 Status: AC+1 vs Robits | DR/3 | P
Xander HP: 50/56 - AC: 15/12/13 Status:
Augar HP: 62/71 - AC: 23/11/22 Status:
-------------------
Green HP: /52 AC: 18/15/17
Red HP: 07/52 AC: 18/15/17
Blue HP: 39/52 AC: 18/15/17
Vedia takes a step forward and sends another Ray of Frost at the remaining gear.
James moves closer to the trap, trying to block anyone from setting it off before he can disable it. Seeing the gearbot in front of him, he takes another potshot at it.
Xandar stays in the back, keeping an eye out for anywhere where his abilities might be helpful to the others.
Gearghost is down and none to soon. If you were not so efficient the track would have been triggered for sure. With the threat gone James disarms the track with little difficulty and you can look around some.
Before they died and became gearghosts, the burgling servants hid their stash of gold leaf stripped from furniture, valuable silverware, crystal goblets, and other valuables looted from the tower in these rooms. In all, there is a total of 1,400 gp valuable portable items.
There is one remaining door that you open without issue.
F10. Supply Closet
This room is filled with crates and boxes, the walls covered with shelving holding linens, cleaning supplies, and other mundane tools. A strange cocoonlike object made of tightly wound strips of wire and metal ribbons is affixed to the highest shelf on the curving northern wall. The metal cocoon, on the other hand, is quite interesting.
Approximately the size of a human’s fist but looks to weigh only half a pound,
"Well well I'm not certain I've ever laid my eyes on anything quite like this. Perhaps I might have read about such a thing before." Xandar says stepping over to have a closer look at the cocconlike object.
Vedia casts Detect Magic toward the odd metal cocoon. "It's interesting enough to look at I think."
There is nothing else on this floor.
F13. Third-Floor Atrium
Flights of stairs ascend and descend to this large atrium. The ceiling above the landing is open to the floor above, while doors on the south and east walls of the atrium allow access to other parts of this floor. Short messages have been written above three of the doors. The air in this room smells strangely acrid.
The stairs to the north descend to area, while those to the west ascend. The doors are labeled, see map.
"You know, Xandar, that reminds me of something..."
Let me help you out there... very interesting."